The role began in the fall of 1998 and was only supposed to be a short stint, but actress and character soon won over the cast, crew and audience. After graduating from high school, the then-17-nearly-18 year old Dushku auditioned for television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and won the part of Faith, a Slayer much more troubled than Buffy. She began to get older roles, able to look a few years beyond her true age. More film work from the nineties included the Hallmark TV movie Journey, the Paul Reiser flick Bye Bye, Love and Race the Sun. She has starred with such notable players as Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert de Niro as well Arnold Schwarzeneggar in such major motion pictures as This Boy's Life & True Lies, respectively. He began her movie career in the movie "That Night" at the tender age of twelve, playing Alice Bloom opposite Juliette Lewis. Dushku has numerous starring roles in several acclaimed films. At the age of 20, she was already is considered a veteran of the large and small screen. Rumor has it Dushku has also studied dancing and singing and was often seen in children's theater, signing for the deaf. Growing up surrounded by brothers, she admits to being quite the tomboy when she was a little girl. He began her movie career in the movie "That Night" at the tender age of twelve, playing Alic Eliza Dushku is an actress, producer and director. Whereas he was supposed to be my protector, he was my abuser.”ĭushku said that she’s coming forward with her story years later thanks to the victims who have spoken out amid the accusations of sexual misconduct that have rocked Hollywood.Description: Eliza Dushku is an actress, producer and director. My life was literally in his hands: he hung me in the open air, from a tower crane, atop an office tower, 25+ stories high. “On a daily basis he rigged wires and harnesses on my 12 year old body. While on set for the Arnold Schwarzenegger film, Kramer was responsible with making sure her stunts went smoothly. “He spoke these words: ‘You’re not going to sleep on me now sweetie, stop pretending you’re sleeping,” as he rubbed harder and faster against my catatonic body,’ and then suggested they keep the encounter quiet. The “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” actress then claimed that he “wrapped me with his gigantic writhing body, and rubbed all over me,” while she laid still. “I remember, so clearly 25 years later, how Joel Kramer made me feel special, how he methodically built my and my parents’ trust, for months grooming me exactly how he lured me to his Miami hotel room with a promise to my parent that he would take me for a swim at the stunt crew’s hotel pool and for my first sushi meal thereafter,” she wrote on Saturday.ĭushku, who is now engaged, vividly described that once the then-36-year-old brought her to the room he turned down the lights, put on a movie, and went to the bathroom from which we emerged naked, “bearing nothing but a small hand towel held flimsy at his mid-section.” In a lengthy Facebook post, the actress, now 37, detailed how Joel Kramer, a “leading” fixture in the business, established a rapport with Dushku and her parents before sexually abusing her while working together on the 1994 film. Eliza Dushku has accused a stunt coordinator of molesting her while filming “True Lies” when she was 12.
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